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3½ years of experience in developing successful, complex, and user-centered web sites.

Proven expertise in interaction and usability: defining target audience and user experience, site structure, functionality, and navigation.

Demonstrated skills in usability planning and testing.

Proven ability to meet deadlines and comfort with emerging technologies and fast-paced development cycles.

M.S. in International Business Administration.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

March 2001 - present
CONSULTANT TO THE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION

Guide project teams in choice and execution of usability strategy and methods. Provide direction in design and evaluation of usability sessions. Advisor in procurement of web services.


1999 - February 2001
THE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION

Responsible for overall web strategy and development, maintaining costs, employees, and project teams with a budget of 3 million USD.

Led requirement analysis, produced user profiles, performed task analysis, and established usability goals.

Participated in design, prototyping, and evaluation of conceptual model and screen standards. Conducted usability testing using methods such as interviews, walkthroughs, and heuristic evaluation.


1997 - 1999
KUNSKAPSBOLAGET ("THE COMPETENCE COMPANY")

Documented functional, system and user requirements, and produced interaction design specifications in an iterative participatory design process.

Defined site functionality, navigation, user task models, and usage scenarios.

Produced user scenarios, mockups, and storyboards.

 

UNIVERSITY

1991-1996
LUND UNIVERSITY, Sweden

Master of Science in International Business Administration
Major in Management and Organization Theory. Minor in German.

February 1995 - June 1995
MURDOCH UNIVERSITY, Australia

Scholarship
Studies in Organization Theory and Behavior, Marketing, and HRM
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April 1994 - July 1994
BASEL UNIVERSITY , Switzerland

Studies in Organizational Theory, Behavior, and Development.

 

INTERNET & HCI

"HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION"
Five week graduate level course at the Department of Human Computer Interaction at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

"PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR THE INTERNET"
An eight week course held by Icon Medialab, Stockholm, Sweden.


CERTIFICATION COURSES

  • Photoshop 5
  • Dreamweaver 3
  • Illustrator 8
  • Acrobat 4
  • Flash 5
  • CSS (CHI 2000)


  • ADDITIONAL COURSES

  • "Evaluation of Web Sites" (CHI 2000)
  • "Usability and Users with Disabilities"
  • "System Development and Internet Technology".


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